01 n. A mark [thus −, or ÷]; -- so called as resembling a needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected passages or readings.
pl.
Obeli ((ŏb"ĕ*lī))
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A mark [thus −, or ÷]; -- so called as resembling a needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected passages or readings.(Print.)